Dylan was once again lying down unconscious in the sick bay, his persona trapped in his body while the Shadow King's ran around in Bayville.
All the X-trainees were gathered in the Danger Room, where they were having a practice simulation. The metal walls of the circular room faded out to become a classy Victorian-style room. In the middle of the room, a woman in a green dress, emerald jewellery covering her wrists, sat on a teak chair. The woman looked up at the recruits with her green eyes, and smiled sinisterly as the furniture in the room began to glow green and swing themselves in a circular motion.
"Magma, Scarlet Witch!" Iceman, the leader of the recruits for this exercise, shouted across the room. "Lead your side of the room!" The Scarlet Witch nodded, and flung her hands at a glowing grandfather clock who was flying at her, which stopped in its tracks and exploded, its greenish aura replaced by blue. Sunspot turned black as coal, surrounding himself with a fiery corona, as a dresser and lamp flew at him and merely bounced off him in pieces. Berzerker hurled a crackling electrical wave at an impending chandelier, which exploded into millions of glass shards, which instead of slashing everybody in the room, fell to the floor harmlessly under the eye of the Scarlet Witch.
On the other side of the room, there was nothing left for the mysterious green glow to hold on to; Candle and Magnify had destroyed everything. The enigmatic woman stood up from her chair and waked over to them, and chunks broke off from the floor and ceiling and began swirling around Iceman. From the darkest part of Iceman's shadow, a femals silhouette sprang out and stepped out into the light, becoming Psylocke. "Come on," Psylocke said as she held on to Iceman's hand as she jumped into the shadow of a particularly large chunk of ceiling as if it were a hole, bring Iceman with her, promptly appearing beside Magnify and Candle.
"Can we do it now?" Candle asked. "Go ahead," Iceman said, rubbing his hands together. "I'm ready." Magnify held out his hand and clasped Candle's, and they both looked intently at the flying chunks of concrete. Candle reached out a hand; a flaming beam of orange energy which gave off intense heat knocked the chunks onto the ground, starting a fire in the process. Iceman gestured at the fire and a fine mist shot from his hands and extinguished the flame.
The woman seemed incensed. She stared at Iceman, Candle and Magnify, and shrieked, "Nobody defeats Emerald!" Her eyes glowed green as Iceman, Candle and Magnify glowed in a green aura of the same colour and were flung across the room and out of the door. "Take your words back, Emerald," Psylocke said through gritted teeth as she ran at Emerald with a blade sprouting from her fist. As she attempted to drive her blade into Emerald's forehead, Emerald pushed Psylocke away and fired a green blast at her, knocking her into a wardrobe. Emerald clapped her hands, and the doors of the wardrobe slammed shut.
From across the room, Magma hurled a ball of flaming magma at Emerald, who fired one of her green bolts at it, and they created quite a spectacular effect as they cancelled each other out with a bang. "Go kill yourself," Emerald said, as she telekinetically sent a chunk of wall flying at Magma, knocking her out of the room, to where Iceman, Magnify and Candle were, "or maybe I should do it for you." The chunk of wall, still floating inthe air above Magma, began to "shed"- bits and pieces of the chunk dropped off until all that was left was a very sharp dagger.
As the dagger plunged downwards towards Magma's chest, Iceman stumbled forwards over her head and grabbed onto the telekinetically controlled dagger, trying to pull it backwards. "Bobby!" Magnify shouted. "What are you doing! You're powerful, not invincible!" "Yes, Bobby's not invincible," Cannonball said to Magnify, "but I am," and he flew at Emerald with superhuman speed, knocking her onto the floor wincing in pain.
A moment later, the woman, together with everything else, faded away, and everyone found themselves in the Danger Room again. "Very good, X-Recruits," Storm's voice boomed through the speakers, as she said, "you may now leave the Danger Room." The door slid open as everybody walked out of the room.
Iceman walked over to Psylocke, who was walking slower than everyone else, and said, "Betsy, I know this really good ice cream parlour downtown, wanna come?" "No, Bobby, thanks anyway," Psylocke said, not really looking at him as she spoke. "Well, then," Bobby continued, "wanna go the park?" "No," Betsy replied. "Well, um, do you want to-" Bobby said, but halfway through his sentence, Betsy walked into his shadow and vanished.